Congress bound, Minnesota's Ilhan Omar enjoys another first

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Fresh off of becoming the first Somali-American elected to Congress, Ilhan Omar said Wednesday that she's still enjoying being known for her firsts. In 2016 the one-time refugee became the first Somali-American elected to a state ... read full story @economictimes.indiatimes.com

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Ilhan Omar, who has become the first American-Somali to be elected to the US Congress, has expressed her determination to push for the protection of women and refugees. Ms Omar, who fled civil war in Somalia as a child and spent four years in a refugee ...

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar made history last night. The two are the first Muslim women elected to serve in Congress. Tlaib, who ran unopposed after securing the Democratic nomination in August, won in Michigan's 13th Congressional District, and Omar, ...

Ilhan Omar has made history after becoming the first Muslim congresswoman, along with Rashida Tlaib, and the the first Somali American to be elected in Congress. Omar, who came to the US as a refugee, pushed a progressive agenda, including a $15 ...

Voters in Minnesota and Michigan on Tuesday elected the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress, a former refugee who fled Somalia's civil war and a Detroit-born Palestinian-American. The victories by the two Democrats — Ilhan Omar and ...

Ilhan Omar, 36, is a Somali American who immigrated to the United States as a teenager. She beat Republican Jennifer Zielinski to win the Minnesota House seat previously represented by Keith Ellison. Ms Omar and Michigan's Rashida Tlaib have become ...

ALSO READ: Factbox: Fast facts about the US elections. The victories by the two Democrats — Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib — came on an election night when members of multiple minority groups had a chance to score electoral firsts.

Minnesota state Rep. Ilhan Omar has become one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, easily winning the election in Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District — the Minneapolis-area district previously represented by Keith Ellison — on Tuesday.

Ilhan Omar (left), newly-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on the Democratic ticket speaks to the media in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 6, 2018. US voters elected two Muslim women, both Democrats, to Congress on November 6, 2018, ...

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RT @NonieMG: Celebrate Ilhan Omar but let us not be ahistorical please. Kenya as a state is and always has been violent towards refugees.